by Grania
It’s an April Fool’s joke, but it’s also satirical and rather pointed. It’s guaranteed to offend a lot of people who will claim they are skewering sacred cows; but at least this is pretty good evidence that #NotAllStudents are Special Snowflakes.
Like all good satire, it comes uncomfortably close to being indistinguishable from the real thing, while also being clearly absurd in other places.
Rmy alma mater has nailed it! Love the fractions and the half-life ones:-)
Huge breaking news on my twitter feed. In response to Zuckerberg’s peace, love and understanding post, ISIS has surrendered. All its assets to be divided equally between MSF, UNICEF and Syro-Palestinian archaeology. It looks like Dennett’s optimism about social media is well-founded.
What a great lampoon! Way to go Stanford!!! I hope some snowflakes read this and gain perspective about how childish they are.
We insist the Stanford Review team be summarily fired/expelled for supporting the capitalist, colonialist, and speciesist appropriation of our heritage in #15, and for the micoaggressive and hurtful generalizations they have made therein. We are not all wild, and for your information, few of us have wings.
Sincerely,
The Buffalo.
Also you can’t rollerskate in a herd of you, apparently.
The Stanford Review is an independent conservative student newspaper, occasionally ultra-right wing.
20 years ago, I sent them a letter to the editor, objecting to some screed of theirs. You had to explain what your connection to Stanford was to consider getting it published. I listed my father as a retired professor there, and two jobs I had held on campus, one rather prestigious, and my second as a brief tenure on the custodial staff. They printed my letter, and only listed me as a former janitor at Stanford.
But OK, this is fairly good.
Funny. I am glad to see a little humor in the review….a generally conservative bastion. I knew many who wrote for it who are conservative but live liberally.
I don’t remember the Stanford Review in my day (60s and 70s) but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. I just remember The Stanford Daily and The Chaperal (humor magazine). Wonder if they took their name from the conservative National Review?
Aaaaaaaaaaaah!
Speaking of offence Greater Glasgow Police have issued notice 17 hours ago (its 4pm 2 April here … something to do with April fools?) to tweeters and social media users to “Think before you post or you may receive a visit from us this weekend. Use the internet safely.” #thinkbeforeyoupost
On the basis of
*Is it True? *Is it Hurtful? *Is it Illegal? *Is it Necessary? *Is it Kind?
https://twitter.com/hashtag/thinkbeforeyoupost?src=hash
People have also posted their opinion on
https://twitter.com/GreaterGlasgPol/status/715867273261662208
I’m pleased to see it collected the predictable amount of flak.
cr
Well that seems nice. I presume they’re only planning to send the lads roond your hoose if you actually tweet something illegal (inciting racial hatred or violence, e.g.), not to actually enforce kindness.
Where’s my dang trigger warning?
As a commenter on http://stanfordreview.org/ said:
Belial Issimo • 17 hours ago
I [b]DEMAND[/b] that the Students of the Stanford Review learn the subjunctive mood.
Ok, no BBCode. HTML ?
demand ?
Stanford University has repeatedly failed to address systematic issues on campus…
Um, shouldn’t that be systemic?
Otherwise, especially liked #4
Someone, no doubt, is currently moving to get the Stanford Review shut down because this satire is creating a hostile environment on campus.